South Africa: A Matter of Duty

For
all its apartheid repression, South Africa remains two crucial steps
short of being a full-fledged police state. It still has an independent
judiciary and a free, if often intimidated press. Now, in what promises
to be one of South Af rica's hardest-fought court cases in years, the
limits of press freedom are being tested. The occasion is the trial of
the editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, Laurence
Gandar, who was arraigned last week for, as he put it, "fulfilling
the recognized duty of a newspaper." As Gandar saw...